I signed up for the Apple music free trial and I quite like it. Seems to be very useful and the family price of 15 quid a month for basically all the music you’ll likely want is pretty good when you compare it to buying the CD’s or whatever.

The only reason why I have cancelled the free trial is that I just don’t use it. The only time I’d use it would be if I was driving but the data usage worries me – I have 5gb a month but sometimes I nearly use it all anyway.

Do people have music on all the time at home? Am I weird in that I just don’t do that? It might be because I worked in shops for 12 years with background music so I can’t stand having music on just for the sake of it – if I have music on I want it loud and to dance to it! Or at least sing loudly out of tune along to it…. 😉

I work in an office with no wi-fi so can’t really use it then.

not fussed at all by Beats1 but so far found a few new artists I really like from starting a station from something I already have (if that makes sense)

I doubt I’ll continue to pay once the free trial has finished – at least if I remember to unsubscribe that is

I think I’d use it if it was free, but quite happy just streaming music form youtube these days in the office

I refuse to use “free” services as I used to manage a music shop and saw the sales of CD’s suffer when you started to be able to copy them (yes it was that long ago and I can remmeber when CD burners were £150++!) – I like the artists to get at least some money!

Using a series of charts, the Spotify website has illustrated how much a niche indie album could earn per month ($3,300) compared to a breakthrough indie album ($76,000), a Spotify top 10 album ($145,000) and what it calls a global hit album ($425,000 a month in royalties).
Currently with 6 million subscribers worldwide, Spotify said several artists were paid more than $3m (£1.8m) in 2013.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25217353

I like the artists to get at least some money!

Just because the service is free doesn’t mean no-ones getting paid (which probably explains why Spotify are in such a financial black hole…)

If anyone’s screwing the artists it’s the record labels – which is exactly the same situation as when you ran your shop I’m sure.

I generally only listen to music when driving or having a shower so I’m in a similar boat to the OP, it looks a good service but doubt I’d ever really use it

Surely free (or cheaper) access drives the demand for the artists live shows.?

I’m impressed by what a mate told me about it, but I don’t use it and haven’t signed up. Particularly impressed that they will store your whole library in the cloud.

I like the artists to get at least some money!
Which is why I use Bandcamp.

I’ve heard some interesting stories about Bandcamp.

Fascinating.

there was this one time………….

Bah!

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